Stephen Pyke, DIC

Stephen Pyke is the Chief Clinical Data & Digital Officer for Parexel leading and directing the operational execution and development of the company’s patient data strategy. Stephen is a statistically trained, quantitative thinker with a deep and highly strategic understanding of patient data, risk management and value as well as operational delivery.

Prior to joining Parexel, Stephen was Senior Vice President & Development Head, Digital Data & Analytics at GSK. In this role he led the company’s efforts to rapidly deliver a tech-enabled modernization and innovation program utilizing agile ways of working, enabling better use of clinical data as well as productivity and efficiency gains to yield a step change in clinical trial cycle acceleration.

Stephen is the current Chairperson of the Steering Committee of the Clinical Research Data Sharing Alliance (CRDSA), a multi-stakeholder consortium that serves the clinical data-sharing ecosystem, as well as Chair of the Association of Clinical Research Organization’s (ACRO) AI/ML Committee. He also has lengthy tenure with the Royal Statistical Society as a Chartered Statistician, an MTA assessor and committee chair. Stephen serves as an advisor to Mathematics in Education and Industry, an independent charity in the UK.

Stephen holds a master's in Statistics from Imperial College London and a bachelor's in Mathematics from the University of York.